Potential Songs for Music Videos and incorporating concept.

After spending some time researching into the various genres and styles of music videos, I have concluded I wanted to continue upon the postmodern route. I want to be able to recreate a music video that is purposely, but effectively conveyed as 'dated', with genre and other elements influenced by upcoming qualitative & quantitave research. I have selected a few songs that I would like to experiment these conventions with, as I feel they offer some stimuli/synaesthesia, in conjunction to lyrics.

((Moodboards for songs will be in a separate blog post, this is just general ideas and brief analysis))

Smallpools - Over and Over.

I discovered this song on a Spotify playlist a few years ago, I, instantly enjoyed the song for it's major key and uplifting vibe. The pauses in the pre-chorus give me instant ideas for different jump cuts used for like a montage/narrative based video, based on living 'free'. Focusing upon the lyrics, "I want to feel this night over and over", I feel the narrative could insinuate over a period of time, whether it be friends, family or relationship that is conveyed to the viewer - the lyrics offer a vague, but perceptive approach. As this song hasn't got a music video, I have more creative imagination to play around with.

Marina and the Diamonds - Blue.

Blue is off Marina's 3rd Album 'Froot'. I chose this song purely due to the similarity of some songs I have analysed within my research, the striking one was 'Girl of the Year' by Allie X, which was discussed within my blog post talking about Postmodernism. The two songs both discuss the idea of female fragility whilst in belief of the idea that love will solve their problems "Give me one more night, one last goodbye" - a lyric from 'Blue'. Due to the similarity of the songs, I would like to reiterate the genre (in reference to Andrew Goodwin) and conform to the Studio Performance genre, using a green screen and having the 'artist' perform the song. Hybridisation with other genre's will be considered after research has been completed.

Lana Del Rey - Get Free.

Off the bat, Lana Del Rey has always been in the back of my mind when it comes to artists who tend to incorporate concepts and methods, especially due to most of her collaborations with Anthony Mandler as her directer on most of her music videos; which coincidentally incorporates postmodern approaches. In terms of music video, I would like to ideally hybridise the studio performance genre with experimentation as I could play off the repeated lyrics "out of the black, into the blue". 

Ariana Grande - Ghostin.

Ariana Grande was definitely not an artist I was considering when looking at postmodernism, due to her upbeat music off her previous 4 albums, with no correlation between retro and R&B, I felt that if I were to pass the postmodernist approach with any of her music, in terms of experimental/contradictory, it would be simply unsuccessful, and be displeasing for even active audiences. However, when saying this, within her latest album titled 'thank u next', I found this song immediately from the first listen, reminiscent of an old disney film introduction. With its minor key and the deep lyrics of a satirical relationship, I believe this song would be fun to experiment with, hybridising the Studio performance genre with the Narrative; "He just comes to visit me when i'm dreaming every now and then", paints a picture and opens an interpretation of a passed love one, which could be portrayed as memories through an 'old vhs tape'.


Marina - Handmade Heaven.


Another potential Marina song, due to its slow yet upbeat rhythm. The lyrics detail a story about being at peace with nature and the world around us - this gives me (in terms of synaesthesia) visuals of plants, blue skies with the lack of technology. I would definitely take more of a conceptual approach with this song, with constant symbolism with nature - to ode to either love, religion etc.